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In the News (Mon 14 Dec 09)

  
  Rural & Migrant Ministry
The Clotter-Jubilee Award is given to the individual who has worked tirelessly in the spirit of Carlos Clotter to enhance the rights and hope of farmworkers.
Carlos was a Garifuno (Afro-Carib) farmworker from Honduras who was committed to the belief that the farmworkers could join together and create their own destiny.
Carlos was a moving force in organizing farmworkers in the midst of the onion fields and apple orchards of New York and a founder of Cooperativa.
www.ruralmigrantministry.org /about/about_8.asp   (413 words)

  
 Talk:Zambo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hence, the mention of terms like "Garifuno," et al.
The article is about a singular phenomenon, or group of people, collectively: people in or from Latin America of mixed African and Indian descent.
Encompassed in that category are people of various nations, who go by different names (Garifuno, Lobo, Cafuzo, etc.), who have their own distinct cultures.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Zambo   (1912 words)

  
 sandinista national liberation front - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
The Contra war unfolded differently in the northern and southern zones of Nicaragua.
Contras based in Costa Rica operated in Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast, which is sparsely populated by indigenous groups including the Miskito, Sumu, Rama, Garifuno, and Mestizo.
Unlike Spanish-speaking western Nicaragua, the Atlantic Coast is predominantly English-speaking and was largely ignored by the Somoza regime.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/sandinista-national-liberation-front   (2675 words)

  
 1994 charges against the Bellecourt Brothers 3
Clyde Bellecourt has also openly supported the "Native American Free Exercise of Religion Act," which allows the United States to use a lower standard than the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in denying American Indian religious freedom, and subjects Indian religious practices to the scrutiny and whim of the Secretary of Interior.
Between 1982 and 1991, Clyde Bellecourt openly supported the collaboration of his brother, Vernon, with a settler government, to wit: the Government of Nicaragua, in the oppression, imprisonment and killing of members of the Miskito, Sumo, Rama, Garifuno and CreoIe peoples of the Atlantic Coast region of Nicaragua, known as Yapti Tasba (see Point 2.
Testimonial evidence, including their own, indicates that, as "guests" of the Nicaraguan government, Vernon and Clyde Bellecourt traveled to the Yapti Tasba region in 1981, while the Indigenous peoples of Yapti Tasba were engaged in an armed struggle to defend their rights from the Managua regime.
www.coloradoaim.org /history/1994chargesagainstbellecourts3.htm   (3472 words)

  
 What is Dance Journey?
There is evidence that if we look far enough back into time, nearly every culture had in its history some form of Dance Journey - of dancing into a trance state or ecstatic dance.
It is still being practiced by the Sufi whirling dervishes, the Garifuno people of Belize, the indigenous tribes and nations of North and South America and the Aborigines of Australia among others.
We update the elements of this spiritual practice to produce an experience we feel is as powerful as ever.
www.dancejourney.com /whatisDJ.html   (371 words)

  
 The Reef House Resort  To contac
If getting out and exploring is more your style, Larry and Carol will assist with arranging any activity you desire from jungle canopy tours to visits to the local Garifuno village of Punta Gorda.
The cultures range from the Payans (relatives of the Mayans) to the Garifunos (relocated slaves from other islands dumped on Roatan in the late 1700's).
Their separate traditions and cultures along with their shared cultures provides a fascinating experience.
www.reefhouseresort.com /guest_comments.html   (3641 words)

  
 FINAL OPINION AND STATEMENT OF THE TRIBUNAL PANEL
We, the Tribunal, find the defendant, Vernon Bellecourt, guilty of collaborating with the United States government and with other enemies of American Indian people.
We, the Tribunal, find the defendant, Vernon Bellecourt, guilty of espionage against the Miskito, Sumu, and Rama Nations, as well as the Creole and Garifuno peoples of the Nicaragwan Atlantic Coast region.
Charge V. We, the Tribunal, find the defendant, Vernon Bellecourt, ~guilty of misuse/misappropriating American Indian Movement funds.
www.coloradoaim.org /history/19941104Finalverdictissuedinrapidcity.htm   (1793 words)

  
 Christian Aid reports: In debt to disaster
A plethora of international NGOs and UN organisations arrived with material and personnel, but the challenge of assisting a million people without homes or hot meals remained daunting, especially in remote rural areas, with most of the country's roads and bridges washed away.
There were reports that the minority communities on the Atlantic Coast of Honduras, such as the Garifuno (descendants of fl slaves), and the indigenous Miskito people, were discriminated against and denied assistance.
There were also fears of corruption and diversion of aid, especially involving the military, which was implicated in large-scale profiteering after Hurricane Fifi in 1974.
www.christian-aid.org.uk /indepth/9910inde/indebt2.htm   (17012 words)

  
 The Drachen Foundation: A Non-Profit Kite Education Resource—Lessons Level
The goal of this cultureal imposition is to create a market for gringo products among Guatemalan youth.
The result is that young people, Maya, Ladino and Garifuno, do not identify with their own cultures.
Since there is not state policy encouraging the promotions and protection of our national cultures, they end up choosing the easiest culture, the one that’s imposed through the mass media.
www.drachen.org /classroom_guatemalan04.html   (478 words)

  
 Thursday, August 23 Marvin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
We stop to dip our toes in the warm, clear, salty water.
The place is known as Travesia, a Garifuno community and the Kuether’s favorite beach area.
Our next stop was at the village of Baja Mar. That’s where we built the first houses back in ’99.
www.stpaulucc.org /Honduras/Journal2001/ThursdayAug23-2.htm   (551 words)

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